- Adam Foster, director of the Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts
more rape trees in Texas. Do not make the dangerous trek to Texas.” He was referring to the ashes of a tree where migrant women were sexually assaulted by human traffickers and left to die, according to the Statesman.
Abbott is seeking another $3 billion in the next legislative session for Operation Lone Star. Since launching in March 2021, the state has spent $11 billion to deter migrants and fortify the border.
Regulators: More than 250 new cases of groundwater contamination Nearly every county in Texas has at least one case of groundwater contamination, according to an annual report outlined in The Texas Tribune. The latest report compiles 2,870 open cases of groundwater contamination, some of which go back decades, according to the Texas Groundwater Protection Committee.
During 2023, 252 new cases the Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts. “It needs to be reported properly and addressed.”
Groundwater contamination falls under the purview of either the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality or the Texas Railroad Commission, depending on its source, with the former handling 80% of the cases.
The single most common source of groundwater pollution in Texas is gas stations, which make up a third of all cases. A map of groundwater contamination cases can be found on the TCEQ site at https://tinyurl. com/375xrerk.
New space institute is up and running The Texas A&M Space Institute, to be located next door to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, recently broke ground on a 400,000-squarefoot facility. The $200 million center is funded by 2023 legislation creating the Texas Space many other nations with their own space programs. Among the projects to be tackled at the new institute will be rover and spacesuit development, and possibly developing concepts for a space hospital.
“It’s really meant for collaboration between academics, industry and government to achieve government goals or to achieve, just quite frankly, commercial space goals,” she told the Standard. “But it’s all about collaboration.”
Currie-Gregg added the long-term goal is traveling to Mars, but first “we really need to return to the lunar surface.”
Investigation: Big truck oversight has waned An investigation by the Austin American-Statesman indicates commercial vehicles are being stopped for safety inspections far less than before, even as commercial traffic has increased. The Statesman found that random roadside safety
